Johann Georg Hamann

Tags: Philosopher.

Johann Georg Hamann (27 August 1730 – 21 June 1788) was a noted German philosopher whose work was used by his student J.G. Herder as a main support of the Sturm und Drang movement and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment.

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birth date

1730-08-27

birth place

Königsberg

death date

1788-06-21

death place

Münster

era

Age of Enlightenment

influenced

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

influenced by

Martin Knutzen, Hume

region

Western philosophy